Seems to be partially back.
Twitter was down
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#222Was receiving 500 on the main page for some time. Seems to have recovered now.
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#223So storytime! I worked at Twitter as a contractor in 2008 (my job was to make internal hockey-stick graphs of usage to impress investors) during the Fail Whale era. The site would go down pretty much daily, and every time the ops team brought it back up, Twitter's VCs would send over a few bottles of really fancy imported Belgian beer (the kind with elaborate wire bottle caps that tell you it's expensive). I would in…
> We got so engrossed in the details of this topic that half an hour passed before we noticed that everyone had stopped working and was running around in a frenzy. Someone finally ran over and asked him if he was doing a query, he hit Control-C, and Twitter came back up. This would not be out of place as a scene in Silicon Valley
idlewords, the user you're replying to, was listed as a consultant on the show
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#224At long last, productivity has been restored. No more time wasting anti-intellectual arguments on a platform that has provided little to no value.
Unfortunately, the poor SRE's at the company will reboot the system and the masses will resume their daily centralised content consumption. Oh well, I will just have to go to Mastodon or other instances for curated content (with no algorithms messing up my feed).
I encourage you join Mastodon and the decentralised web.
As far as I am concerned with Twitter, nothing of value has been lost.
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#225This is bad... There is an Amber Alert in California for an abducted child and on the amber alert that popped up on my phone was a link for more information... That link took me straigt to twitter, which is down.
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#226Earlier quoted context omitted.
"I would intercept these rewards and put them in my backpack for the bus ride home, in order to avoid creating perverse incentives for the operations team. But did anyone call me 'hero'?" Wait so you stole rewards for a team that was spending time (I assume extra or stressful) on something you didn't do or have any part in. And you want a cookie? I mean I get it, the company was probably not great in it's infancy. Bu…
It's a joke. Laugh, it's funny.
Having worked on a lot of ops teams in unstable environments, it's just really dickish.
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#227Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think OP is saying the rewards were confiscated so the team wouldn't begin breaking things on purpose to get a reward when they fixed it.
Yeah but does anybody believe that the engineers would deliberately break things so they could have to work in a stressful environment bringing things back up just to get some free beer?
If your incentives are aligned w/firefighting as opposed to fire prevention b/c management is not motivating and rewarding the extra work that goes into avoiding these scenarios in the first place, you're encouraging fire.
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#228Ok, this is too many high-profile, apparently unrelated outages in the last month to be completely a coincidence. Hypotheses: 1) software complexity is escalating over time, and logically will continue to until something makes it stop. It has now reached the point where even large companies cannot maintain high reliability. 2) internet volume is continually increasing over time, and periodically we hit a point where…
The brain is the greatest pattern matcher in the world. While it is unlikely all of these companies would have major outages in a month, be wary that the subconscious is constantly generating narratives to explain statistical anomalies. Interesting theories nonetheless:)
The more the conspiracy grows the faster these otherwise minor stories shoot to the top of HN and add to the pattern.
It fuels itself.
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#229I wondered why there was a sudden peace on Earth.
Re: Twitter was down
#230So storytime! I worked at Twitter as a contractor in 2008 (my job was to make internal hockey-stick graphs of usage to impress investors) during the Fail Whale era. The site would go down pretty much daily, and every time the ops team brought it back up, Twitter's VCs would send over a few bottles of really fancy imported Belgian beer (the kind with elaborate wire bottle caps that tell you it's expensive). I would in…
> The site would go down pretty much daily, and every time the ops team brought it back up, Twitter's VCs would send over a few bottles of really fancy imported Belgian beer Never understood this mentality but have seen it at many companies. Rewarding someone or some team for heroically fixing something after a catastrophic failure. Talk about misaligned incentives! Reminds me of the Cobra Effect [1]. When you reward…
Seems like maybe you want to reward fire fighters and also reward fire prevention?